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WORLD BOWLING NEWSLETTER 2015-11-13 1 (4) To all WTBA member federations Presidency nominees’ joint letter The two nominees for the position as World Bowling/WTBA President – Kevin Dornberger and Sheikh Talal Mohammad Al-Sabah – have in a joint letter expressed how they want to work together for the best of our sport. See the attached letter. 2015 WTBA Congress Agenda and documents for 2015 WTBA Congress 15-16 December 2015 in Abu Dhabi is available on World Bowling website. http://2015wwc.worldbowling.org/congress-documents/ The agenda and the documents for FIQ Congress is also be available on the website The Congress Bulletin was distributed September 29. The Bulletin and all forms are available on 2015 WWC website http://2015wwc.worldbowling.org/information/ If your federation has not registered to participate - Please send your registrations to participate at the two Congresses soonest. Proxies must be received by the Secretary General latest 8 days before the Congress. African Zone formation meeting on December 14 All current and potential members located within Africa are invited to participate in an organization meeting whose purpose will be to start an African Zone of World Bowling/WTBA. The meeting is scheduled to December 14 at 18.00 Seminars on December 14 December 14 the Executive Boards of FIQ and WTBA will have meetings. At the same time we will organize two seminars for all representatives from the federations who want to attend. You are all welcome! 13.00 – 14.00 Lane inspection and Technical Delegate issues – Marios Nicolaides 14.30 – 15.30 Building a better federation – Dave Steiner Coaching Clinic on December 14 All current and potential members located within Africa, as well as the Gulf Region, are invited to attend a coach clinic designed to assist federations to establish a national coaching program. The presenter will be Kim Terrell Kearney, Team USA Coach and one of the few female Gold coaches. Seminar on December 17 09:00 – 17:00 Referee certification clinic – Danny Santos Seminar on December 17-19 09:00 - 17:00 Technical inspector certification clinic - Marios Nicolaides WORLD BOWLING NEWSLETTER 2015-11-13 2 (4) 2015 World Women Championships (WWC) 2015 WWC will be held in Abu Dhabi, UAE December 5 – 14, 2015. 29 countries have registered to participate. We can accept some more registrations in case your federation has missed to register. Adjusted schedule Because of the number of participants is lower than expected some adjustments in the schedule has been done. You find the adjusted schedule on WWC website. Follow the WWC on internet You find all information about the event on WWC website http://2015wwc.worldbowling.org/ All results, statistics and information about participants will be presented there. You can also follow the championships by online scoring and live streaming. The links will be published on WWC website when the event starts. World ranking WBT ranking is updated on World Bowling website www.worldbowling.org/athletes/rankings/ Top-10 in the two divisions are as follows: 1 Dominic Barrett, England 590 1 Kelly Kulick, USA 474 2 Jason Belmonte. Australia 467 2 Liz Johnson, USA 470 3 Osku Palermaa, Finland 425 3 Danielle McEwan, USA 410 4 Mike Fagan, USA 405 4 Clara Guerrero, Colombia 268 5 Martin Larsen, Sweden 366 5 Diana Zavjalova, Latvia 268 6 Mika Koivuniemi, Finland 330 6 Cherie Tan, Singapore 266 7 Bill O'Neill, USA 284 7 Sandra Andersson, Sweden 245 8 Tommy Jones, USA 265 8 Jazreel Tan, Singapore 236 9 Sean Rash, USA 256 9 Missy Parkin, USA 212 10 Stuart Williams, England 252 10 Shayna Ng, Singapore 206 Next WBT events are Qatar Open, Kingdom International Open Saudi Arabia and 2015 WWC. Kevin Dornberger Christer Jonsson WTBA President WTBA Secretary General Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] .